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Free_Spirit07
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0 posted 2007-03-28 06:57 PM



Ever done something you regret?
Ever said something that you never meant?
Ever wanted to turn back time?
Ever needed to look your fears straight in the eye?

But you found that it is too late now
It's all been said and done

That one thing you should never have thought about
Let alone done
That thing you'd do anything in the world to take back

The things I said to you mum
Yes, the biggest thing I regret

We were playing a game
Betting our hearts against the love

Every dice you rolled
Every inconspicuous move you made
Those moves hit me in the face
They got under my skin until I was crawling with anger deep within
They made me feel like I was living with so much sin

That I was worth absolutely nothing
Or that I wasn't good enough for anything
That I was disappointing you
I just needed to win

Every time I rolled the dice
I was doing a mirror image of what you had just done to me
Except this time I was doing them to you
I was making you feel the exact same way I just felt

We were not able to realize
See the truth before our eyes

We both already lost
We let those things get in the way of our love

These tears are the cost
For all those years that we lost

Those times I pushed you away
When really I just wanted you to stay

All them things I called you
All those discriminating names

And I'm back where I started
Back at the things I have said and done

Not till now have I realized that waking up in the morning without you
Could be the hardest thing to do
The hardest thing to go through

The tears I shed won't speak the words running through my head
I'm sorry mum I never meant a word of it

It won't help me to tell you that I'm sorry
That wouldn't mean anything not after what I done

Not after all those nasty words I said
There was no meaning of what I done
No - not one

It was the dumbest thing I could have ever done
The things and people you compared me against
Those remarks you said slashed my heart
Tore it in bits

I look back at most of those things
And I see how immature and petty they were

But it doesn't seem to change me
The next thing you say still haunts and frustrates me
The things I do the things that hurt me
Are the same things I am doing to you
The same things are hurting you too

We forgot - though we knew deep inside
That we loved each other
And that we wanted to stop those fights

I don't want you to change
I don't want you to fit in to my expectations
I love you for who you are
My mother
My own flesh and blood

The game's finished
We collected the get out of jail free card
We both landed on the broken heart
We both shed the tears
And still fear the fears
But no matter what happens from now on
I love you - I love you mum!

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Free_Spirit07
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The middle of my mind!
1 posted 2007-03-28 07:49 PM


Thanks to rhia_5779 for helping me out on this. I hope it has improved and has a better flow. Oh and btw rhia_5779 I had written a poem similar to this to my mum but I rewrote this poem for a friend of mine who was having some trouble with her mum. I know it kinda seems like a pointless poem, but saying I love you to your mum isn't as pointless as it may seem And the whole poem is based on admitting what she had done, and realizing why, and just saying I love you anyway. Hope ya like the changes, and thank you very much for your input
rhia_5779
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2 posted 2007-03-29 03:18 PM


You really did make alot of stuff changed do to what i suggested. Kudos most people say well i don't think so or I don't like changing..

It reads alot better I will read through again like I edited before when it isn't semi late and I have slept well sinc saturday

Free_Spirit07
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3 posted 2007-03-30 12:32 PM


Thank you, I hope you get some sleep~something I'm laking at the moment too. *yawn* It looks like no one else is going to comment, wow this place has changed! Thank you again
- Thena -

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Free_Spirit07    
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4 posted 2007-04-02 12:01 PM


This is a lot better. I think it flow a lot better, and it still has the same meaning so it is really good...
hunnie

~fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me~

rhia_5779
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5 posted 2007-04-02 03:00 PM


That I was worth absolutely nothing
Or that I wasn't good enough for anything
That I was disappointing you
I just needed to win

Rework this, the first two sentences say the same thing in differnt words. Be more creative. Go out of the box

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